Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into
our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What
horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go
awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines
violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the
half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing
presence of robots in our

It’s been three years since the global uprising of the world's
robots, three long years in which ordinary people waged a guerilla
war that saved humankind from the brink of annihilation. But a
horrific new enemy has emerged, and the resistance is called to
fight once again. And in a world where humanity and technology are
pushed to the breaking point, their one hope may reside with their
former

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST The empire of
cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global
struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen,
workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these
forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the
vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In
a remarkably

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates
in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of
leadership positions in government and industry. This means that
women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that
most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why
women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled,
explains the root

Kahlil Gibran s masterpiece, "The Prophet, "is one of the most
beloved spiritual classics of our time. It has sold millions of
copies inmore than forty languages since it was first published in
1923. "The Prophet" contains powerful words of wisdom on such
essential subjects as marriage, children, friendship, work, and
pleasure words that readers from around the world have found
inspirational and

Part thriller, part domestic tragedy, at once political and
intensely personal, Ivan Kilma's epicly scaled new novel is an
inquest into the compromises that turned even the best citizens of
Czechoslovakia into accomplices of its late totalitarian regime.
"Enormously powerful".--New York Times Book Review

This text presents the story of two journeys - one literal, one
imaginary - through contemporary Russia and through Soviet-era
literature. Travelling through present and past, Frank Westerman
draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution,
as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes.

The Basis For The New HBO Documentary. A National Book Award and
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Scientology presents
itself as a scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment, but its
practices have long been shrouded in mystery. Now Lawrence
Wright--armed with his investigative talents, years of archival
research, and more than two hundred personal interviews with
current and

Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men
who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In
the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway,
surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his
uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men
under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he
receives a

In 1946, a 20 year old medical school student called Joshua
Lederberg decided to find out whether microbes make love.
Lederbeter was motivated not by a displaced libido, but by
scientific ambition. At the age of seven, he had declared that he
hoped to become 'like Einstein' and to 'discover a few things in
science.' The 'few things' Lederberg discovered would revolutionise
modern science and earn

The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios'
history and evolution, and the "fraternity of geeks" who shaped it.
With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary
businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the gold standard of
animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot
made at Lucasfilm in 1982 all the way up through the landmark films
Toy

When Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Yalta in February
1945, Hitler's armies were on the run, and victory was imminent.
The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace--but
instead they set the stage for a forty-four year division of Europe
into Soviet and Western spheres of influence. After fighting side
by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was
beginning

Roughly twenty years from now, our technological marvels unite and
turn against us. A childlike but massively powerful artificial
intelligence known as Archos comes online...and kills the man who
created it. This first act of betrayal leads Archos to gain control
over the global network of machines and technology that regulates
everything from transportation to utilities, defense,

A deft and impressive debut novel--a dark hyper-comedy--set in
London in the late 1990s during the height of the newspaper wars
just before the dot-com tidal wave. Honor Tait, a legendary
prize-winning war correspondent (called in her day "The Newsroom
Dietrich" because of her luminescent beauty) is now in her eighties
and looking back at a career that saw her on the front lines and in
the

From an internationally acclaimed Czech writer comes a shrewd,
humane, and poignant novel, set in Prague before the Velvet
Revolution, whose perceptions about love, conscience, and betrayal
cut to the bone of life in both totalitarian and democratic
societies. "A chilling story from the underground".--The New York
Times

Vaclav Havel was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936. He is a leading
playwright and has long been involved in the human rights movement
in Czechoslovakia - and was sentenced to four and a half years
imprisonment for this close association. In January 1932, for
reasons of health, he was released from prison before his sentence
was completed. The letters he wrote to his wife were published as
'Letters

A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's
adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the
subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western
civilization. When the Emperor Contstantine converted to
Christianity in 368 AD, he changed the course of European history
in ways that continue to have repercussions to the present day.
Adopting those aspects of